Hands On With The 9” ASUS Eee PC

Looks uber... small, light, fast enough for anything you'd be doing away from your desk, and not expensive compared to other ultra-portables like Sony's. Slap XP on there and you're good to go!
 
looking good.... wonder what the batt life is.

 
If the price is right then I'll be picking-up one of them when they become available.
 
a screen i have a chance of reading. and twice the storage. hopefully not horifically expensive.
 
now why couldnt they have made it 10" sigh.. so much screen bezel i see..
 
Also, in this pic

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You can make out the specs; 1 gig of ram and a 4 cell battery (rated @ 3.5 hrs)


Does anyone else think the left and right buttons on the touch pad stick out like a sore thumb? Looks like it's metal (or painted that way) and looks plain ugly to me. May just be the pics, though. I'm guessing a retail price of about $449-549 after stuff dims down.
 
Looks awesome, but for me the main draw of the original was the price. If they're getting into the >$500 range (and really >$400 imo), I think it belies the appeal of the original.
 
Is this supposed to be news? I have been using one of these for a few months now. Then again I live in Japan so maybe we got them early here - surprise surprise.
Anyways, you will be happy to know you can get them in both XP and Vista flavores here so hopefully you will still have that option in the US.
 
Nice! I almost bought one this weekend. I guess I'll wait for this one instead.
 
399 pounds. I hope that's not the US price.

$500 would be my limit for that thing.
 
I def. do want if the price is $400.

I'm getting rid of my laptop (Acer Aspire 5003) - just too big, too hot, and I want power. So I'm going to be building a rig this summer for just doing my normal routines, might actually start to game just a little bit (CoD4, and that's it probably) so I'll be getting a 9600GT and a 20" Monitor.

So when I'm in college, I'm laying in bed and I want to watch a movie, grab my EEE PC (with the use of Synergy) - I'll be able to control the mouse and keyboard from my bed, plus take it with me to classes for work on projects and when I go home, I'll be able to stream music and videos from my rig at my dorm.

Hopefully I'll be able to sell my laptop for $350-400 if I'm lucky, have a few hundred with the tax rebate check, and this stimulus package thing should bring me up to around $800-$900 and right now my price for all of this is about $1450 (including the EEE PC) - so I'll be spending around $650-$750 of my own money, not bad...

This summer is going to be great :cool:
 
They've just priced it right out of its own market segment.

You guys do realize that the posted price was Pounds? That's $800 US. I don't care how much I like the screen, forget it. The ONLY things they need to be adding are the 9" screen and the slowest model of Intel Atom processor. Just those. Keep the price DOWN ASUS!
 
Advil said:
They've just priced it right out of its own market segment.

You guys do realize that the posted price was Pounds? That's $800 US. I don't care how much I like the screen, forget it. The ONLY things they need to be adding are the 9" screen and the slowest model of Intel Atom processor. Just those. Keep the price DOWN ASUS!
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It will not be $800.

I had a pal visit from England and he bought 3 ipods since they cost about $600 US back in England.

They pay out the ass for electronics.
 
Advil said:
They've just priced it right out of its own market segment.

You guys do realize that the posted price was Pounds? That's $800 US. I don't care how much I like the screen, forget it. The ONLY things they need to be adding are the 9" screen and the slowest model of Intel Atom processor. Just those. Keep the price DOWN ASUS!
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lol...it will NOT be $800.
 
If they can manage to price that thing for <$399 for the 12 gig version, I'm sold. The camera seems to be a bit of a waste of time but...meh. Only thing I don't care for (it's trifling but..) is the white color. It might yellow over time. Coffee stains and dirty hands will bugger that clean white fast.
 
ICOM said:
If they can manage to price that thing for <$399 for the 12 gig version, I'm sold. The camera seems to be a bit of a waste of time but...meh. Only thing I don't care for (it's trifling but..) is the white color. It might yellow over time. Coffee stains and dirty hands will bugger that clean white fast.
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Then don't spill coffee on it?
 
blisstik said:
399 pounds. I hope that's not the US price.

$500 would be my limit for that thing.
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Advil said:
They've just priced it right out of its own market segment.

You guys do realize that the posted price was Pounds? That's $800 US. I don't care how much I like the screen, forget it. The ONLY things they need to be adding are the 9" screen and the slowest model of Intel Atom processor. Just those. Keep the price DOWN ASUS!
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That's euros(€), not pounds(£).

Also, electronics along with other hobbies are relatively more inexpensive in the US than other countries. I would not be surprised at all if it was $399 USD.
 
Oddly, the screen rez was not shown. I'm guessing it's not good. Probably all that was done was to include more rez in the X axis but not the Y. The 480 native rez on the model I have is bad. I loaded XP on it and have a virtual 600 dots in on the Y axis. It's workable.

With at least a wider screen, more websites will be readable without scrolling side to side. That will be helpful.

The 12 Gigs on-board is nice.

Really, for me, the 400 US price on the 4G model with the 3.5 hour battery I bought is at the limit as far as price for one of these. Since the unit is not fully functional, there is a max price that people may be willing to pay for ultra portability. For me, I think 400 is it. The keyboard is cramped so I make a lot of typing mistakes on it.

Otherwise, I really like the idea of this device and I have one for work which I use to do wireless testing and for that purpose it is spot on.

If you need a computer while traveling with the intent of using internet via wireless, this is probably one of the best devices. Feels rugged and is a perfect size for taking with you without being a boat anchor.
 
ASUS tells us the screen is 1024 x 600, and it looks to be almost the exact same pixel density as the 7-inch version. The computer was being shown in both Linux and Windows XP versions, so it looks like you'll be able to have your choice of OS when the 9-incher is released later this year.
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The new model has a slightly upgraded screen.
 
Somehow read

Hands On With The 9&#8221; ASUS Eee PC

as

Hands On With the 9" ASUS E-Peen


I guess that was my WTF moment for today...
 
The problem is this, at $250-$300 you satisfy a whole niche of low-end needs with a "commodity" product. This is where it has its advantage, price point.

At $400 you enter the relm of Full featured Laptops that do everything functionally the Eee does and a whole lot more with 14"+ screens and the whole nine yards. The only thing it has going for it in this segment is size, and the performance hit here starts to open up a gap that makes it a tough sell.
 
TheBluePill said:
The problem is this, at $250-$300 you satisfy a whole niche of low-end needs with a "commodity" product. This is where it has its advantage, price point.

At $400 you enter the relm of Full featured Laptops that do everything functionally the Eee does and a whole lot more with 14"+ screens and the whole nine yards. The only thing it has going for it in this segment is size, and the performance hit here starts to open up a gap that makes it a tough sell.
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I would agree with that.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8669951&type=product&id=1196470792281

If you're looking for a sub $500 laptop to work on and surf the web, laptops like the Toshiba trump the Eee.

A better price point for the Eee might be <$200 if laptops like the Toshiba are it's competition.
 
Hopefully the price will be under $500. If it isnt then I guess I will grab a 4G surf and start modding.
I am looking to replace my XPS M1210 with something smaller and lighter. All I have found myself doing with it is Web surfing, some divx video watching and light gaming.
 
I LIKE the fact they added screen size to something that just had way to much area full of "empty" in the first version.
My area might still be the 4g because of the base price, it will be up to what they list the "low model" for the 9" to be that might price me ought of it for my use.

I just realized that the new screen size will make it HARDER to mod, because of the fact that a few of the designs used that empty front panel space for other things.

HOPEFULLY (cross fingers/toes) that the 8g (or less) will hit at at least $450, which means $50 more the larger screen (and some FOOLPROOF -ME way of adding the touchscreen)
 
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